Society of Saint Gregory

Well, I accept what you say, but fail to understand it. What do the instructions say? Follow me, and use these voices? How do you then stop the trumpets from playing all the piano harmonies? I confess to being quite mystified, especially as you talked about laying down tracks in rehearsal earlier in...

The thing is, quite a lot of dioceses incorporate a very brief renewal of commitment by deacons in their Chrism Mass - therefore before the Bishop, as presbyter says. Two main reasons for that: (a) it's jolly difficult to get all the deacons together at any other time, and (b) when the deacons stand...

if for any reason you'd wanted to slow down or speed up at any point, you wouldn't have been able to. I can – and I did. Tell us how. It's a pre-prepared track, right? You're playing along with it with both hands, right? Therefore not able to tweak the midi playback speed in mid-performance, right?...

To be entirely unfair to Nick (mea culpa), it wouldn't have been a problem if he'd stuck to the music proper to the liturgy, as recommended by the Council and most of the 20th century's popes. As was done at three cathedrals I've heard about this weekend, entirely to the exclusion of the assembly, ...

I was pounding away at the Sanctus – midi was playing a basic piano part and I was playing (yes, live!) second piano at octaves above and below. With both parts coming out of the same instrument, giving something of pub piano effect, I wondered who would even know which notes I was playing live and...

Well, I heard a London bus operative of Caribbean descent whistling the chorale Jesu, meine Freude not long ago...... The Passion Chorale was a love-song tune before Luther borrowed it, so why shouldn't folk find it appealing?! But, to answer Nick's question more seriously, I do think there are melo...

May I ask one thing of the above posters: Once I've removed all those things which meet with your disapproval, once I've persuaded our assembly to drop items they love and to sing the rest unaccompanied, will your lives be any richer? I suspect not. Our, however, will be somewhat poorer. I don't qu...

This comes from the "New" Catholic Encyclopaedia of 1914. Nope, it's from a book by Louis Duchesne, in turn quoted in the Catholic Encyclopedia. Indeed it is, a book that was published in 1889, and which is notable for its lack of source references. This lack of background information was...

it is v difficult to create Rubato etc in Sibelius but not too difficult when inputting directly into midi or adding later. <snip> If inputted directly you get what you put it – rubato, legato etc. It would be good to have an explanation of this that a lay person can understand. Do you input by pla...

Nick..Midi stuff in his situation…what we are doing when we use pre-recorded music of any description Midi is not pre-recorded music. We do not (and never will) use pre-recorded music in our parish. It simply doesn’t work. The biggest problem, already mentioned, is the inflexibility. Not true – we ...

It is merely the Communion separated from the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist properly so called. The details of the ceremony are not found earlier than in books of the eighth or ninth century, but the service must belong to a much earlier period. At the time when synaxes without liturgy we...

We've had this argument before. It's about authenticity. Much as I appreciate the care that Nick takes over preparing Midi stuff in his situation (and he probably takes more care than most), what we are doing when we use pre-recorded music of any description is simply not being true to the resources...

Nick is right. For hundreds of years only the celebrant communicated (even if there were loads of other clerics there). You have to go back to the earliest of the Ordines Romani (8th/9th century) to find everyone communicating. This is also the first mention of the Mass of the Presanctified (as it u...

keitha wrote:There is a precedent for there being 2 concurrent cardinals in England & Wales

And in Scotland - Gray and Heard.

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